ACTi A1D-220-V3.14.19-AC User manual

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Encoder Firmware
A1D-220-V3.09.14-AC
User’s Manual
Encoder Firmware
A1D-220-V3.14.19-AC
User’s Manual

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Table of Contents
1. INSTALLATION _________________________________________________3
1.1 Minimum System Requirements _____________________________________ 3
1.2 Preparation before setup ___________________________________________ 4
1.2.1 Setup your PC network __________________________________________________4
1.3 Configuring the IP device___________________________________________ 9
1.3.1 Video Display _______________________________________________________11
1.3.2 PTZ (PTZ Camera only) ________________________________________________15
1.3.3 Host Setting __________________________________________________________20
1.3.4 WAN Setting _________________________________________________________22
1.3.5 Date Setting __________________________________________________________25
1.3.6 Video Setting_________________________________________________________27
1.3.7 Video Adjustment _____________________________________________________30
1.3.8 OSD / Privacy Mask ___________________________________________________33
1.3.9 Camera Setup (HQ1 CCD camera models) __________________________________35
1.3.10 Camera Setup (CMOS camera models) __________________________________38
1.3.11 Camera Setup (PTZ camera models) ____________________________________40
1.3.12 UPnP_____________________________________________________________41
1.3.13 Bonjour___________________________________________________________42
1.3.14 IEEE 802.1x _______________________________________________________42
1.3.15 IP Address Filtering _________________________________________________43
1.3.16 Event_____________________________________________________________45
1.3.17 User Account ______________________________________________________62
1.3.18 System Info________________________________________________________63
1.3.19 Firmware Upgrade __________________________________________________65
1.3.20 Profile ____________________________________________________________67
1.3.21 Factory Default _____________________________________________________68
1.3.22 Save Reboot _______________________________________________________68
1.3.23 Logout____________________________________________________________69

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1. INSTALLATION
1.1 Minimum System Requirements
The IP device provides access through an embedded web server. To access the device,
your PC needs to meet minimum requirements to perform satisfactorily.
CPU
Pentinum 4 2.4GHz and above
Memory
256 MB or above
Operating System
Windows XP with SP2 or above. Windows Vista / Windows 2003 /
Windows 7
Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 / Internet Explorer 7.0 / Internet Explorer 8.0
Video Resolution
SVGA or XGA with 1024x768 resolution
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1.2 Preparation before setup
Our IP device provides access through Internet Explorer. You need to
set up the network settings and the IP address for the IP device. Please make
sure all connections are properly connected, then follow the procedures
below.
1. Setup your PC network
The IP address for your PC must be within the same subnet as the IP
device. You need to match the TCP/IP settings between PC and IP device
before you can access it via IE.
2. Setup IP device’s IP address
This IP device’s IP address can be assigned manually or acquired
automatically by network service (DHCP). If it acquires the IP address by
using the DHCP service, please use the IP utility software bundled in the
product CD to find the IP address for all IP devices.
1.2.1 Setup your PC network
To set up the network of IP device via a PC, you have to change the
TCP/IP settings of the PC.
The following are the default network settings of IP device.
IP Address: 192.168.0.100
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
To access the IP device, the IP address of the PC should match the
address below.
IP Address: 192.168.0.xxx
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

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The procedures below is the setup procedure on Windows XP. If you
use operating system other than Windows XP, please refer to OS manuals for
proper setup procedures.
STEP1
Start up your PC.
STEP2
Click the [Start] and select the "Control Panel"
NOTE: xxx should be a number from 1 to 254 except 100, which is
used by the IP device. Please also make sure that no two equipments
use the same IP address in the same network.

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STEP3
Double-click the "Network and Internet connections" icon.
STEP4
Double-click the "Network connections" icon

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STEP5
Click “Local Area Connections”, and then click “Change settings of
this connection” in the network Task menu.
STEP6
Click “Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)”, and then click the [Properties]
button. If you have both IPv4 and IPv6, choose IPv4.

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STEP7
Click the “Use the following IP address” radio button and enter the IP
address and the subnet mask.
STEP8
Click the [OK] button and the window dialog box closes.
Please set the settings as below.
IP address: 192.168. 0.xxx
Subnet mask: 255.255.255. 0
(NOTE: xxx should be a number
from 1 to 254 except 100, which
is used by the IP device. Please
also make sure that no two
equipments use the same IP
address in the same network..)

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1.3 Configuring the IP device
This section describes how to configure the IP device. The
administrator has unlimited access to all settings, while the normal user can
only view live video. The IP device is configured under a standard browser
(Microsoft IE6 / IE7 / IE8).
Follow the procedures below to configure the IP device.
STEP1: Open a browser
STEP2: Enter the IP address of the IP device.
The default IP address is “192.168.0.100”
You need to allow the Active X install in IE to properly access this
device. If you encounter any issues, please modify your security setting and
allow ActiveX from this device.
Please see this knowledge base article for details link.
The “Login Page”is now displayed as below.
STEP3: Enter account name (factory default: Admin) and password
(factory default: 123456).
STEP4: Select the language of the IP device user interface. You can
NOTE: Internet Explorer 6.0 / 7.0 / 8.0 is highly recommended. You
may download it from
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/default.mspx

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select from English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese,
Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Czech, French, Finnish,
Hungarian and Danish. This user interface setting will disappear once
you log out, if you want to change the default user interface language,
please change the setting of [Host setting] after login.
STEP5: Click the button to login or click the button
to re-enter account and password.
Once you log in successfuly, the “Video Display page”will be shown
as below.

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1.3.1 Video Display
1.3.1.1 Megapixel CMOS camera
This section tells you how to view live video via Internet Explorer.
STEP1: Click the [Video Display] on the “Main Setup page”.
The “Video Display page”is displayed as below.
STEP2: Check the [MPEG4/MJPEG] to select the Compression
type. Once selected, the video server/IP camera will start to stream
with the new compression method.
STEP3: To display the full view on a limited screen size, click the
[Scale Down] checkbox to scale down the SXGA(1280x1024)/ to 640
x 512, and 720P(1280x720) to 640 x 360 resolution.
STEP4: Check the [Mute] checkbox to mute or play audio from
the video server/IP camera.
STEP5: Click the [Audio Out & Volume] checkbox to

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enable/disable audio transmission from this PC to IP device’s audio out
and change audio out volume. Ex: With this function enabled you can
speak to the people at the IP device site.
STEP6: Click the [DO1] Button to set DO status by DO1 to High
(1) or Low(0). The device DO level will remain in this status until
changed by another command or device reboots.
STEP7: Click the [DO2] Button to set DO status by DO2 to High
(1) or Low(0). The device DO level will remain in this status until
changed by another command or device reboots.
STEP8: Click the [Setup] to exit the live view and return to
“Main Setup page”.
NOTE: If the streaming is disabled, you cannot see the live images
here.
NOTE: For all network router/switches connected to this Camera/Video
Server, be sure to use Auto Negotiation as the Network Connections
Type. This will enable the whole network to always run at the highest
possible speed.

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1.3.1.2 PTZ or PT camera
This section tells you how to view live video via Internet Explorer. The
PTZ function is available only to “root”user(Factory default: Admin
/123456). Other users cannot see this command.
STEP1: Click the [Video Display] on the “Main Setup page”.
The “Video Display page” is displayed as below.
STEP2: Check the [MPEG4/MJPEG] to select the Compression
type. Once selected, the IP camera/video server will start to stream with
the new compression method
STEP3: Check the [Mute] c checkbox to mute or play audio from
the video server/IP camera.
STEP4: Click the [Audio Out] checkbox to enable/disable audio
transmission from this PC to the IP camera/video server’s audio out
and change audio out volume. Ex: With this function enabled you can
speak to the people at the IP device site.

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STEP5: Click the [DO1] Button to set DO status by DO1 to
High (1) or Low(0). The device DO level will remain in this status
until changed by another command or device reboots.
STEP6: Click the [DO2] Button to set DO status by DO2 to High
(1) or Low(0). The device DO level will remain in this status until
changed by another command or device reboots.
STEP7: Click the [Quit] to exit the live view and return to “Main
Setup page”.
STEP7: Click the [PTZ] to Show “PTZ Control Window”.
NOTE: If the streaming is disabled, you cannot see the live images
here.
NOTE: For all network router/switches connected to this Camera/Video
Server, be sure to use Auto Negotiation as the Network Connections
Type. This will enable the whole network to always run at the highest
possible speed. Please also refer to Network Speed & Duplex settings
in Host Setting section on Page 20 of this manual.

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1.3.2 PTZ (PTZ Camera only)
Click the [PTZ] on the “Main Setup page” to show PTZ control panel
in a separate pop up and enable mouse PTZ in the main live view
window.Select a page in “PTZ Panel ” There are three main pages: PTZ,
Preset and Tour. You also can control camera from preview display with
mouse.
PTZ Page
PTZ function Help
Parameters
Description
Page switch
Button
Click these buttons to switch between “PTZ”, “Preset” and
“Tour” pages
Pan Speed
Set the pan speed. 1 is slowest and 5 is fastest. This only
affects Pan speed if user click on Control Panel. Mouse
PTZ and auto-scan speeds are unaffected. Tilt and Zoom
speed also only affect commands given from Control
Panel.
Tilt Speed
Set the tilt speed from 1(slowest) to 5(fastest)
NOTE: For all PTZ settings,
including Presets, Tour and basic
settings, you will have to do Save
and Reboot to write this into the
camera. Camera will lose all
unsaved settings upon reboot.

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Zoom Speed
Set the zoom speed from 2(slowest) to 7(fastest)
Zoom
Click + button to zoom in, - button to zoom out.
Auto Focus
Click check box to enable auto focus.(PTZ camera only)
Focus
Click these buttons to adjust focus to near or far.
PT Control
Click each button to do pan and tilt control.
Home
Click this button to go to home position.
Reset
Click this button to reset the pan/tilt/zoom function.
Auto-scan
Click to start continuous auto scan between left limit and
right limit
Auto-scan Speed
Set the auto-scan speed from 1(slowest) to 5(fastest)
Auto Scan
recovery
Click the check box to enable auto-scan recovery function
IAny manual operation will interrupt camera autoscan. If
there's no further manual operation for X seconds
(recovery time), the camera will resume autoscan.
Recover time
Set the recovery time. Must be larger than 1.
Preset point
Click these buttons to move your camera to your desired
preset points.
Preset Page:

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■Preset Page Help
Parameters
Description
Preset Info
Show preset number and preset name. You can click to
edit the preset name
Set Preset
Click this button to save current preset name and PTZ
position to this preset point
Goto Preset
Click this button to go to the PTZ position memorized for
this preset point.
Delete Preset
Click to clear the preset point Information, including preset
name and preset PTZ position.
Tour Page
■Tour Page Help
Parameters
Description
Tour Group ID
Select a tour group to start or to edit. There are 10 groups
available
Start Tour
Click to start the tour selected
Edit/ Cancel
Click to edit or cancel the tour setting.
Preset Name
Select a preset to be added in this preset tour
Time
Enter the interval of time for the camera to stay in this
preset point in this preset tour. This time includes the time
it move from previous preset point to this preset point
Add Preset Point
Click to add preset point in this preset tour
Preset Point
Select
Click to select preset point.
Apply
Click to apply the tour setting.
Move one earlier
Click to move this preset point one earlier in queue.

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Move one later
Click to move this preset point one later in queue.
Move to first
Click to move this preset point to the first in queue.
Move to last
Click to move this preset point to the last in queue.
Goto Preset
Click to go to the PTZ position for this preset point.
Preset Del
Click to remove the preset point from this preset tour.
Note, the settings of this preset point will NOT be deleted
Mouse Control:
You can click on the preview window to directly control Camera PTZ
movements. The closer your cursors are to the edge, the faster the camera
will move in Pan and Tilt. To Zoom in and out, move the cursor close to the
center and click when the cursor changes to the + or –sign.
NOTE: This function is available only AFTER you click the
“PTZ” and the “PTZ panel” is displayed.

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■Mouse PTZ Help
Parameters
Description
Click area 1 to P/T with fast speed
Click on area 2 to P/T with normal speed
Click on area 3 to P/T with slow speed
Click on area 4 to do zoom in.
Click on area 5 to do zoom out.
Mouse wheel
Use mouse wheel to do zoom in and zoom out.
NOTE: Once you finish all settings, be sure to click the [Save Reboot]
button. Otherwise, some settings may not take effect.

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1.3.3 Host Setting
This section tells you how to setup IP device’s host settings and LAN
settings.
STEP1: Click the [Host Setting] on the “Main Setup page”.
The “Host setting page” is displayed as below.
STEP2: Configure these settings with reference to the table below. If
you are still unsure what to set, contact your system administrator.
■Host Setting
Parameters
Description
Host name
Enter a host name, and this host name will be shown when you
use the IP utility or the SDK to search for the IP device.
Language
Select the language of default user-interface. Every user will
see the default user-interface first when logging in.
■Network link speed & duplex
Parameters
Description
WAN port
This item lets you select the network transmission speed of
WAN port. You can select from
1. Auto detect (default setting)